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Larry Parks

Case from Wilmington, DE dated Jan 21, 2012

Victim Details

Larry Parks

Male

Black / African American

Wilmington

DE

2012-01-21

17

Larry

Parks

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Larry Parks, a 17-year-old Black male, was walking in Wilmington on the afternoon of January 21, 2012, when gunfire shattered the quiet on the 300 block of New Castle Avenue. Officers responding around 3:54 p.m. found him in the street with a gunshot wound to the chest; paramedics rushed him to Christiana Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Parks lived in Bear and was a tenth-grade student at Pencader Charter High School, where counselors and classmates soon gathered to grieve.

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